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		terrymah on Oct 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Registers Are Fast and RAM Is Slow I've heard that modern Intel processors have 100 < x < 200 physical registers. I'm not sure they actually document the exact number.

hornetblack on Oct 12, 2013 [–]

Itanium has at least 256. (128 Integer + 128 Float + 128 predicate (1 bit), which are essentially flip-flops.)

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